A Japanese trademark filing has revealed potential names for the mascot Legendaries of the upcoming 3DS titles Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon; “Solgaleo” (ソルガレオ) and “Lunaala” (ルナアーラ) were both submitted for registration.
Solgaleo definitely seems to combine sol/solar with something, possibly “leo” for lion.
Lunaala we are still researching, but the base of luna/lunar is evident.
UPDATE: A working theory is that this could be hinting towards Sun and Moon being based in Spain. In Spanish “luna” means moon and “ala” means wing, thus Lunaala could be some sort of winged Legendary. “Sol” also means sun in Spanish and “león” means lion. Back in 2014 game director Junichi Masuda visited Spain in person and reported the trip on his blog. Coincidence?
A third trademark filing was for “Gigareki”, but it is unknown whether or not it is related to the two, the name of a Pokémon or an entirely separate product.
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Interesting, a lion will be super cool. Can’t wait to see them and decide which version to buy!
ANOTHER FLUFFY LION
I will not accept him being a lion ……how can accept him being FLUFFY LION ?
I love fluffy lions!
I am not …..I want something more violence than that.
But Digimon World Dawn had an exclusive that was a sun based lion.. such irony. Almost seems deliberate.
I thought that too, but who knows? Maybe they both have a similar origin (maybe a mythology has a lion and sun linked together?)
Sun lion <3 yay. I wonder what origin the ga in the name comes from? (A first thought was Galileo, but ehhhh xD)
And Lunaala sounds interesting, wish we knew what it could look like! I'm trying to think of what its name is comprised of, but I got nothing.
Nala is the name of the female lion in the lion king… Could be a lion & lioness duo?
I was about to say this. XD that’d be awesome.
I think it has something to do with astronomy. So more like Sun and Galileo. For Sun and for Moon…. I have nothing haha
You might be onto something, I just thought mythology cause I have more knowledge on mytholgies than I do with astronomy. But I definitely thought of Galileo too, maybe because he has leo in his name xD
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works
Galeo means cover with a helmet and gladiators wear helmets
wat about this name gigareki ?
WAIT LUNAALA LIKE THE LIONESS, SOLGALEO LIKE SIMBA AND WHAT IF REGAREKI IS PRONOUNCED LIKED RAFIKI FROM LION KING
I would think at that point, someone is trolling with us xD
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Best comment I’ve seen on this website
No its luna and ala idiots
Solgaleo: Sol/Sun, galeo/Galileo, leo/lion
That would be my guess on the name origin, now we just need lunaala (and not just the luna/lunar part of it)
In spanish ala means wing. Maybe something to do with that. Solgaleo will be lion-like and Lunaala will be a wingged something (Pegasus please!). Could also have a Apollo/Artemis feel.
Ah, interesting. Maybe an owl or bat? (since they are winged creatures active at night) but a pegasus would be awesome too!
OMG I want another Owl. We have plenty of bat or bat-based pokemon. Another Owl would be cool, that is if they don’t go for a pegasus, lol.
Yes, I love Noctowl at times, but a good amount of the time I wish for a better owl Pokemon.
The funny thing is that Galileo not only measured the length of a day with accordance to the sun, but he also discovered the four primary moons of Jupiter
This is really interesting… Could this be real? This is pretty exciting.
I wonder also if this came up today because GameFreak will reveal the box arts BEFORE corocoro. Any thoughts?
I wish! 😀 <3
Hey, it could happen. You never know. But at this point I just want this to be real XD
I know, the lack of info is killing me!
I tried looking into various sun gods/goddesses in various cultures to see if a lion is associated with one of them, and I couldn’t really find anything so far. The closest is Sakhmet (I believe that’s how it’s spelled, but a goddess related to the sun with a lionness head) but I dunno.
If they want use egyptian myth they should use Ra or Horus at least but if like u say …..Sakhmet is possible too but that mean the moon legendary should be from the same myth it could be Ptah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pooh,_Phoh,_Loh_(Lunus,_le_dieu-Lune,_S%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne),_N372.2.jpg
yeah, but I was looking for lion at first cause of what we have so far. Plus Sakhmet is not a sun goddess technically only related to it somewhat. And yeah, that would be cool, is there an animal relation there?
Ptah is Sakhmet husband and he have another bird form .
Hmmm, interesting, lines up with what we have so far. Maybe next region is Egypt? Or near there?
Then again, Yveltal and Xernease were Norse-based while Kalos is French-based so maybe an area near Egypt xD
Or it could be somewhere else, I dunno anymore
I would like to discus more about mythology u have many good topics unfortunately I feel sleepy …when I sleepy my english become bad ……so person like is very important to be here at least for me …ty very much.
SOLGALEO sounds like it could be a ROOSTER, GALLO (GAL-yoh) in Spanish. Roosters crow at dawn, so it’s possible!
Maybe a cross between a lion and a rooster?
I….kinda wanna see that. Just to see if it could be done. xD
Fire fairy Griffin confirmed lol
One of Apollo’s sacred animals is a griffin! (At least, from what I saw) So it could be a possibility!
I hope so we need one
A Griffin and a Pegasus would be awesome.
part of me fears the backlash from bronier/bronie haters over a pegasus with a moon theme.
Please elaborate a bit, I don’t watch MLP so I don’t know what you mean, thanks.
In MLP the pony kingdom is co-ruled by a sun princess and a moon princess who control the cycle of night & day. The moon one is the ever popular fan-favorite, Princess Luna.
All right thank you
No problemo, bud!
Its a sun gladiator
that’s make more sense.
Galeo. Swordfish.
And the rooster is the emblem of France… South of Kalos confirmed!
I’m hearing that “Sun shark” and “moon wing” are some accurate assumptions, if Spanish is taken into account. Holy crap, I think it’s actually happening. I’m still confused as to why this didn’t leak earlier, though.
Sun shark? I mean, once again, kinda wanna see it to see if it could be done xD
Garchomp obtained drought lol jk
Special event only. 😛
Special Japanese event only, non-transferable
Aw man, I knew I should have invested in getting a Japanese 3DS! CURSE YOU AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE EVENTS!
Galeo means cover with a helmet in Spanish so sun gladiator
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works
I see a lot about a lion type sun legendary and a winged moon legendary. This all reminds me of the fake Coro Coro leak with the three starters…buy I could still be wrong because GF is totally switching it up a bit on us.
Even if they were fake (which they were at least in that time), maybe they were closer than they even realized, based on what we have right now.
This is true but man if it was me I would be like holy crap my predictions haha
I know I would be like ‘….wat….was I right unintentionally? Holy shiz, I need to invest in the lottery now MOM DAD I AM A PSYCHIC TRUST ME’
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works
I googled the “reki” part of Gigareki, and it supposedly means gravel or pebble, as per this http://karneval.wikia.com/wiki/Gareki. I remembered that anime/manga names are mostly made up of kanji that give some insight into the characters personality or can be pretty self-explanatory (if you know the Japanese). So Giant pebble/gravel, must be the legendary that is based on Earth.
Oh look, Pokemon speculation news to distract me from my schoolwork!! Yay to bad grades!!
And they’ll release the next game as soon as finals or midterms start up too.
Welp, looks like I’m retaking a few classes.
Pfftttt, who needs school when you can be a Pokemon Trainer?
A girl at a party once asked me what I do for income. I told her I was a Pokemon Master. Worked like a charm. 10/10 would recommend.
Does that work if a girl like me does that to a guy?
I mean, I’m checking my bases here.
Yes! It works both ways!!! 🙂
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The Y to your X, the diamond to your pearl…. THE SUN TO YOUR MOON!
Um, I’m the diamond here 😉 cause I sparkle like one.
Nah, one day it’ll happen. I’m focusing on school. Plus, I was never the best with these things and I’m socially awkward so yeah, there’s that.
My wife’s the same way and here we are now with a 16 month old who says pika when he wants pokemon lol
Awwww that’s so cute <3 He's like a little Pikachu!
Thanks he’s definitely 6iv and Adamant lol headbutts everything
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Mmmm I like the way that sounds right now. Me Gusta.
Gotta learn my favorite move first Zen Headbutt! Lol
Haha thanks. I just want my son to have a life that I never had and hope that he finds joy in some of the things I grew up with (Pokémon)
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If by left me alone you mean *insert NSFW&Kids here* then yessur.
Nah. You’re holding out for me 😉 I knew it
Looked up “ala” and was drawn to Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu.
Moana means Pacific Ocean in the loosest of terms
The tides are influenced by the moon
Hawaii confirmed (maybe? Lol)
Maybe they’re doing this thing, where Sun and Moon are both set in two different regions? Like Moon in Hawaii, and Sun in Spain? Probably not the case, but it would be epic af if we get that lol.
That would be a major curve ball. It would be something I liked, nonetheless.
“it all comes together”
I’m really peeved because another lion will be absoultely unnecessary. We have Litleo, Pyroar, Shinx, Luxio & Luxray. A Hippogriff or a Griffin Pokemon would of been so much cooler!
Not trying to be that person, but….Technically the Shinx line is based on lynxs just as much as lions sooo yeah. (possibly even more than lions)
True. You are right. Their appearance is based on lions, but they have more charactericistics of a lynx. But still, I’m gonna be furious if the Sun Legendary just turns out to be a Legendary Mega Pyroar. Lol.
It’s understandable, considering the Litleo line came out last generation.
“Lit” and “Leo”. The combination of the name and the fact we just got a proper family of lions last generation is just all the more fuel to my fire if the Sun Legendary is based off of the Nemean Lion, which is part of Greek Mythology.
I mean, there wasn’t a lot relating any sun gods to lions, but I know griffin was related to Apollo by being one of his many sacred animals, so there’s something there at least.
Well, “Leo” is used in the endings of a lot of things related to the sun. For instance, Galileo was an Italian astromer who studied astronomy. I need to be more open minded on this matter and not jump to conclusions. And besides, Game Freak says they design the Legendary Mascots with the most effort. My hope is that the Sun Legendary could be based off of a combination of animals. Like a Lion and a Griffin and the hooves of a horse. It would be pretty weird but cool if they made it actually work out.
Yeah 🙂
“Hooves of a horse”
Please no, I don’t need bronies invading Pokemon. This is my safe zone.
So much for lacking creative juices 😛
WHEN YOU’VE GOT THE GIFT, IT JUST HAPPENS LMAOO
Uhhh… Ponyta Line? Blitzle Line? ARCEUS?
True, but I was thinking more mythological basis here (and maybe culture too). I didn’t want to research too much into it, since it’s getting late for me, but I saw some things from the little I did.
Galeo means cover with helmet
No its a sun gladiator
I have the same view but u miss the important one Entei.
Its not a lion its a sun gladiator
Oh look! Negativity! 😀
It was only a matter of time.
Luxray is a lynx
Seriously though, those Trademark Bot tweets are from March 22 (with the Gigareki tweet on April 16). Why is this now suddenly so important? Just because it’s been discovered today?
Hush buzzkill
hmmm.. I’m not sure. We just have to wait and see I guess.
Trying to think of something funny and sarcastic to say but I’m out of creative juices for tonight.
Apparently, I heard from someone that “Ala” is Spanish for wing. I’m not sure if this is correct. As I never took Spanish in school. Lol.
I only took 2 years of it, and it is nearly gone. Thanks high school.
I pretty much forgot everything I learned in High School too. Lol.
Yes
That’s a pretty weird name for the moon one.
It’s showed romanized on the trademark as Lunaala, but the Japanese is Lunaaara (LU/NA/Aー/RA). Very weird to read. xD
So it probably reads on the romanized one as Luna-ala (broken into two) not as Lunaala (long Ah sound).
The reason it is ra instead of la is because there is no la in the Japanese language. The sub l for r. And plus when you say the ra you pronounce it with a soft r (sorta like a r and a l combined)
Reason why they have the stereotype of saying their Ls like Rs.
Really interesting to learn that in Japanese :3
That’s not what I meant. xD
What I meant is that it’s written with NA-A-a (ナアー).
Like three A sounds in a row.
If it was supposed to be a long A sound, it would be just Na-a (ナー).
So I guess it supposed to be read as Luna-Ala.
Oh xD Ah ok, I see what you mean. And maybe the other word is aala? I dunno
Sorry about that xDD
No problem. I didn’t make myself clear. It’s hard to explain what you are thinking about a language that’s not yours in yet another language that’s not yours. XD
It happens xD And it’s late where I am so my brain is not functioning well right now.
You can add Thai and Lao to that as well. No La for us too
In the blurred out box art of Pokemon Sun in CoroCoro, I swear I could make out of a hoove or leg of some sort below Sun’s blurred out Japanese logo. It may of just been my imagination or something. I’m still hoping for a Griffin/Hippogriff Pokemon of some kind. It would be really cool if they took a Greek Mythology approach!
I would enjoy that a lot. I’ll accept anything at this point though.
I’m going for Moon as my primary version at this point. I’m a creature of the night and I love the color blue. I really have a feeling both mascots will look really cool. I’ll pre-order both games at the same time cause I know there will likely be some cool bonus if you do that. For ORAS, I got a poster of the artwork of Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre fighting.
Winged Bibarel for Moon and Maned Bibarel for Sun – What do? Lol
SAME. I also SAW THAT!!!
I’m glad I’m not going crazy. Lol.
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works..
+1 I am also into the Griffin idea
It’s possible the sufix leo may not mean anything at all. Could be for Galileo, the astronomer. And the first part of the name “Solgal” is very interesting as well (the French version refers to the game as Pokemon Soleil). It’s possible that the Sun Legendary can travel through space and is seen at night as a constellation, much like the Leo in real life. In fact it’s interesting to note that in ORAS, the Litleonids Meteor shower, was named after Litleo. This is all just a crazy crackpot theory. Can’t prove anything until we see the Mascot Legendaries, which I hope is in next month’s issue. I’m excited to see the Mascots whenever we may see them!
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. One thing at a time, let’s wait until we get some designs before we start analyzing origins and name meanings. For all we know, it may not even be a lion.
Exactly. I shouldn’t be too paranoid. Game Freak hopefully knows what they’re doing this Generation. I’m sure they wouldn’t want another Fire type Lion like the Liteo family (Entei I guess could be considered one while it did resemble one to some degree, it was inspirted by other things to a degree and didn’t have the behavior). I hope it’s not a lion, considering they referenced Litleo in the english versions of ORAS as part of that meteor shower due to it’s name. But we’ll just have to live with whatever choice Game Freak makes. And I have a feeling it will be great, now trying to look on the positive side. I really have liked all the Mascot Legendaries. There’s not one I truly have hated.
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works.
@PokeMadness1996 i think solgaleo will be a sun gladiator and fire fighting
Lunala will be moon bird water flying
The duo works
No galeo means cover with a helmet
So after a very round about way of getting there, I stumbled upon a goddess name Astarte. Her symbols are lion and Sphinx. I think we will see very similar looking legendaries, but have them more masculine/feminine differences. Seeing as Astarte is linked to Venus, I’m getting a very feminine vibe. Maybe something to do with mirrors too. I’m hoping a lion for moon and Sphinx for sun 🙂
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astarte
She has a horse as another animal symbol so maybe the “earth” based legendary is a horse!
I’m totally down for mega Bellossom being the Sun mascot legendary. She’s got that Hawaii vibe going on already.
Nobody cares about Bellossom, Vileplume is where it’s at
Grass fire would be cool
Yeah Bellossom has zero chance of ever being a fire type, Same goes for Sunflora
Just said it would be cool. Obviously, it wouldn’t happen because it has no fire moves that isn’t a status move other than HP fire.